The comparisons between Dominik Szoboszlai and Steven Gerrard are unlikely to end anytime soon, with the Hungarian doing his best to match the Liverpool legend on multiple fronts this season.
After he netted in the 1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, it was revealed that Szoboszlai has scored the most goals from outside the box of any Reds midfielder in the Premier League (7) since Gerrard back in 2005/06 (9).
He now has eight more games to catch the Englishman on that front, while he is also now just one strike away from having the most goal involvements by Liverpool midfielders in a single Champions League campaign.
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At present, that record belongs to the Liverpool icon, who covered the fixture live on TNT Sports this week.
Gerrard scored and assisted 10 in the 2007/08 campaign when the Merseyside outfit reached the semi-final and were knocked out by Chelsea.
Meanwhile, Szoboszlai now has nine goal contributions this term, which could have easily been 10 had Mohamed Salah scored the penalty in the first half, which Szoboszlai won.
Regardless, the 25-year-old’s opening goal was still brilliant and earned high praise from former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson when he was covering the game live on BBC Radio 5 live.
He said: “It is a pleasure to watch Dominik Szoboszlai strike a football. The ball is rolling across his body, and he hits a knuckleball.”
Szoboszlai is also enjoying his highest-scoring season as a Liverpool player since he moved from RB Leipzig in 2023.
He has found the back of the net 12 times in all competitions and already has eight assists to his name.
It has been an amazing season from the midfielder, especially given how the team as a whole have performed.
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